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1、1河南省糗爆叔专插本英美文学专题训练题（完整更新最后的二十分 Discussion，昨晚上传的缺了这个部分已经补回来）选择题中有二十分是英国文学部分，二十分是美国文学部分。意思是说 EX6 还有 EX7 里面有二十分选择题的内容，大家必须去看。 （糗爆叔自己透露的）Reading comprehensionRead the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet. 1.Read the
2、 quotation carefully and then answer the questions:The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,The lowing herd wind slowly oer the lea,The plowman homeward plods his weary way,And leaves the world to darkness and to me.Q：A.Scan the first line of the stanza.B.Find the irregular foot in the second line.
3、C.Briefly explain the significance of this irregularity.A：A.Iambic pentameter with the rhyming scheme of abab. B.The third foot contains two accented syllables. C.Two accented syllables slow down the pace in keeping with the literary meaning of the phrase wind slowly. 2.He neither spoke nor loosed h
4、is hold for some five minutes, during which period he bestowed more kisses than ever he gave in his life before, I dare say: but then my mistress had kissed him first, and I plainly saw that he could hardly bear, for downright agony, to look into her face! The same conviction had stricken him as me,
5、 from the instant he beheld her, that there was no prospect of ultimate recovery there-she was fated, sure to die.Q：A:Identify the author and the title of the novel from which this passage is taken.B:Who is the narrator?C:What does the passage describe?A:A:the passage is taken from Emily Brontes Wut
6、hering Heights.B:The narrator is Nelly, Catherines old nurse2C:The passage describes the poignant meeting between Heathcliff and Catherine when the letter is dying3. I CELEBRATE myself， and sing myself，And what I assume you shall assume，For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.I loafe a
7、nd invite my soul，I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.Q:A:Take the fifth line as a hint, can you write out the name of the poet s completed collections of poems? B:What is the verse structure?C:Who is the poet celebrating? Whom do lines 2 3 also include in the celebration?A
8、:A:Leaves of GrassB:Free verseC:The poet is celebrating himself, his own life. Lines 2-3 also include you”, the readers and their lives in the celebration.4.And so she died. Fell ill in the house filled with dust and shadows, with only a doddering Negro man to wait on her. We did not even know she w
9、as sick; we had long since given up trying to get any information from the Negro.He talked to no one, probably not even to her, for his voice had grown harsh and rusty, as if from disuse.Q：A:Identify the author and the title of the work from which this passage is taken.B:Who dies in this passage?C:W
10、hat kind of relationship exist between her and her neighbors?A：A:The passage is from William Faulkners A Rose for Emily.B:Emily dies.C:Emily is secluded from her neighbors.Questions and answers1.The following passage is taken from The Merchant of Venice. Read it carefully and find the dramatic it co
11、ntains. Use it as an example to illustrate what dramatic irony is.“Bassanio: Antonio, I am married to a wifeWhich is as dear to me as life itself;But life itself, my wife, and all world,Are not with me esteemd above thy life;I would lose all, ay, sacrifice them allHere to this devil, to deliver you.
12、Portia: Your wife would give you little thanks for that,If she were by to hear you make the offer.”A：3（1）When the audience is aware of a discrepancy between a characters perception of his or her own situation and the true nature of that situation, that is dramatic irony. （2）In the given example, Por
13、tia, Bassanios newly-married wife, disguised herself as a lawyer to take charge of the case, Portia herself and the audience know all this, but Bassanio is ignorant of it, so when Bassanio offers in front of his disguised wife to sacrifice her in order to deliver Antonia, he makes himself behave in
14、a ridiculous way in the eyes of the audience. Thus an effect of dramatic irony is achieved.2.Based on Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, discuss the theme of her works and the image of women protagonists.A:（1）Charlottes works are all about the struggle of an individual consciousness towards self-realiza
15、tion, about some lonely and neglected young women with a fierce longing for love, understanding and a full happy life. （2）All her heroines highest joy arises from some sacrifice of self of some human weakness overcome.（3）The image of women protagonists in her works mostly reflect the life of the mid
16、dle-class working women, particularly governesses.（4）Her works present a vivid realistic picture of the English society by exposing the cruelty, hypocrisy and other evils of the upper classes, and by showing the misery and suffering of the poor. Especially in Jane Eyre, she sharply criticizes the existing society, e.g. religious hypocrisy of charity institutions. 3.In what way are Emily Dickinsons poems unique and unconve
